Grade 8 Key Terms

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1st November 2007
  1. Inequality - When things are not equal
  2. Injustice - When things are not right
  3. Natural rights - Rights that you have since you were born
  4. Natural world
  5. Natural laws
  6. Isaac Newton - the physicist who discovered gravity when he saw an apple falling from the tree
  7. Locke
  8. Rouseau
  9. Monarch
  10. Philosophes - thinkers
  11. Observation
  12. Orbit
  13. Gravity - a natural force that pull things downwards
  14. Startling
  15. Analyze
  16. Copernicus - the gy who first came out with the idea of "Earth move around Sun"
  17. Institution - an important organization that controls the city (such as the Catholic Church and government)
  18. Diderot
  19. Develop
  20. Trace
  21. Corrupt
15/11/07 (Thurs)
  1. Liberty
  2. shed
  3. encyclopedia
  4. prediction
  5. telescope
  6. reliance
  7. Urge
  8. affect
  9. effect
  10. Galileo Galilei
  11. Biting wit
  12. natural world
  13. Jean- Jacques Rousseau
  14. astronomer